LETTER TO THE EDITOR 824

Friday

Aug 24, 2018 at 12:01 AMAug 24, 2018 at 6:45 AM

Here we go again!

Well, another round of Republican ‘attack’ adverts showed up in the mail recently. You all know the type — scurrilous tripe that passes as political advertising. Photoshop an awkward picture of an opponent, add some outrageous, out-of-context commentary and send it out with as little acknowledgment of responsibility as possible (take out your magnifying glass and you’ll find an obscure ‘paid for by ….’).

This is about as cowardly and uninformative a waste of time and resources as I’ve ever seen. I do NOT want to hear/read a candidate’s disparaging opinion of his/her opponent (Bull-Stitt comes to mind as a particularly heinous example).

I want to know what programs, plans and solutions you, the candidate, have for our state if elected. Where do you stand on school funding? How do you deal with medical marijuana? How will you help diversify the employment base of our state? What’s your plan to take Oklahoma from last to first in so many performance categories? Your opinion of someone else’s opinion is about as useful to me as a bucket of warm spit. So here’s my solution for the current round.

Whenever I receive an ‘attack’ ad, I’m saving it in a folder so next Tuesday I can vote for the person being attacked. Long ago, Massachusetts candidates would smear their opponent with a ‘mafia’ label a week before the election — too late to mount a valid investigation. The charge was invariably dismissed so I figure there’s a precedent that the smeared will be cleared and should receive the job. In this Oklahoma election, if both candidates are mud-slinging I’ll just skip that office and wait for November as neither deserves consideration. Perhaps then I may even vote for a Democrat!

Dave Register

Bartlesville

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